I’m a historian, and that freaks me out.
MIKE TYSONThis white woman came up to me, and I’m thinking, WOW. When I was a kid, she would have been robbed and raped and left for dead. This is a real strange scenario, and I just wanted to cry. I’m like, “Who am I? Where’s my heritage?
More Mike Tyson Quotes
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In order to succeed greatly, you have to be prepared to fail greatly. If you can’t do both of them, you’ve got a problem.
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Tupac Shakur always wanted me to smoke weed with him, and I never did it, and I wish I did…That’s my biggest regret.
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What was most important was the knowledge [aspect] of the fight. I learned this early on and just told myself to “upgrade my mind.” That’s just what I wanted to do my whole life.
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I feel like sometimes that I was not meant for this society.
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Some people are faster than others; I’m just figuring it out later, that’s all. I’m getting smart too late and old too soon.
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As long as we persevere and endure, we can get anything we want.
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Sometimes, the people we invest the most time in disappoint us the most.
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I can’t change myself. I’m Mike Tyson. I’m a regular kid from the getto striving to do something positive with myself. I happen to fight well.
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You never lose until you actually give up.
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It’s good to know how to read, but it’s dangerous to know how to read and not how to interpret what you’re reading.
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Everyone has a plan ’till they get punched in the mouth.
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God lets everything happen for a reason. It’s all a learning process, and you have to go from one level to another.
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A man that is a friend to everyone is an enemy to himself.
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Most fighters are the most humble people in the world because they’ve gotten their ass kicked before.
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The one thing I know, everyone respects the true person and everyone’s not true with themselves.
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